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[VIDEO] My Presentation to the ARNY Meetup
At its December 27, 2011 gathering, the Augmented Reality New York (ARNY) Meetup presented a video I had recorded for the event. The video was a summary of the FTC Complaint filed this Fall against...
View Article[In Brief] Federal Agencies Pulling Out the Stops to Regulate Mobile Privacy
There is a full-court press underway among federal agencies to regulate the privacy of mobile applications. Just a few examples: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Public Notice...
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Consumer Protection in Social Media
At this week’s New Media Expo / BusinessNext (formerly BlogWorld) conference in Las Vegas, I spoke on a panel called “Social Media and the Law: Emerging Legal Issues and Obligations.” My portion of the...
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Conference Speakers Should Follow FTC Guidelines for Sponsored Social Media...
I’ve done quite a bit of public speaking over the past few years, including on the rules governing commercial use of social media. Recently, I was invited to present to a conference of speakers bureau...
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What Marketing Professionals Need to Know About Augmented Reality Law
Thursday night I was privileged to be part of a panel–together with Brian Mullins of daqri, Brian Bos of Mindshare, and Marty Wetherall of Fallon–presenting on augmented reality to the AdCraft Club of...
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FTC: Social Media Contests Are Endorsements, Require Disclosure
“This pin motivated by my desire to win fabulous prizes.” That’s the sort of disclaimer that participants in social media contests may need to start using under a March 20, 2014 letter ruling from the...
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FTC Testifies on Geolocation Privacy
Today the FTC released the following press release. I reproduce it here, verbatim, because it’s a succinct summary and pertains to important and cutting-edge issues of geolocation privacy that we...
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App Developers Get More Guidance for Complying With COPPA
After giving the mobile app industry a few years of heartburn over the breadth and ambiguity of its expanded Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, the Federal Trade Commission has...
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Appeals Court Upholds Federal Trade Commission’s New Role as Privacy Cop
A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit—FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation—may prove to be a watershed moment for the development of federal privacy law. The Federal...
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Tweet This to Win … a #Nastygram From the NAD
As I’ve blogged about previously, the Federal Trade Commission takes a dim view of contests that encourage consumers to post a message in social media as a means of entering a contest. Its reasoning is...
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